Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
The Golden Bough
PART I
The Journey Back
Markings
Three Drawings 1. The Point
Three Drawings 2. The Pulse
Three Drawings 3. A Haul
Casting and Gathering
Man and Boy
Seeing Things I
Seeing Things II
Seeing Things III
The Ash Plant
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An August Night
Field of Vision
The Pitchfork
A Basket of Chestnuts
The Biretta
The Settle Bed
The Schoolbag
Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble
Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot
Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts
Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973
Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet
Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading
Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight
A Pillowed Head
A Royal Prospect
A Retrospect
The Rescue
Wheels within Wheels
The Sounds of Rain
Fosterling
PART II - SQUARINGS
1: Lightenings
Lightenings i
Lightenings ii
Lightenings iii
Lightenings iv
Lightenings v
Lightenings vi
Lightenings vii
Lightenings viii
Lightenings ix
Lightenings x
Lightenings xi
Lightenings xii
2: Settings
Settings xiii
Settings xiv
Settings xv
Settings xvi
Settings xvii
Settings xviii
Settings xix
Settings xx
Settings xxi
Settings xxii
Settings xxiii
Settings xxiv
3: Crossings
Crossings xxv
Crossings xxvi
Crossings xxvii
Crossings xxviii
Crossings xxix
Crossings xxx
Crossings xxxi
Crossings xxxii
Crossings xxxiii
Crossings xxxiv
Crossings xxxv
Crossings xxxvi
4. Squarings
Squarings xxxvii
Squarings xxxviii
Squarings xxxix
Squarings xl
Squarings xli
Squarings xlii
Squarings xliii
Squarings xliv
Squarings xlv
Squarings xlvi
Squarings xlvii
Squarings xlviii
The Crossing
